150 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-51, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44 and 48-49, and 5 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 11, 18, 19 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 63 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 11, 18, 19 and 33 more.